Find spending laborious hours over a wok fulfilling? Want to carry on the legacy of our forefathers?
The Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) and the National Environment Agency (NEA) are working together on a scheme to sharpen the culinary skills of aspiring hawkers.
The Hawker Master Trainer (HMT) Pilot Programme, which aims to preserve local hawker heritage, will see 50 trainers undergoing on-the-job training with some of Singapore’s veteran hawkers selected from the CEO’s Hawker Guide.
Under the scheme, trainees will study WSQ modules related to hawker stall operations under Continuining Education and Training (CET) Centre Project Dignity, and apply their lessons to actual practice at the incubation stalls within NEA’s designated hawker centres.
Later, they can tender for stalls at the hawker centres of their choice under a separate NEA scheme.
At the launch on Oct. 18, director of NEA’s Hawker Centres Division Richard Tan expressed that he would like more veteran hawkers to give their support and pass on their valuable skills to the next generation of aspiring hawkers.
Photo: Matthew Hine
